Agriculture and Forestry

Rice, vegetables, and livestock continue the heart of Tochigi’s agricultural products. Its annual gross agricultural output is roughly 274 billion yen and its products are supplied to a number of localities nationwide.

Notably, Tochigi boasts national leadership in the production of strawberries, Chinese Chives (called ‘Nira’), etc. Furthermore, promising results are being seen since the use of biotechnology in order to develop a variety of new goods.

Tochigi’s various agricultural products are sold throughout the prefecture and the metropolitan area. The prefecture's specialties such as strawberries and Japanese pears, however, are of such high quality that they are sold nationwide and exported to various countries.

Approximately 55% of Tochigi is forest. Not merely a ready supply of timber, these forests enrich the quality of our citizen’s lives by hosting healthy recreation and preserving vital water and soil resources.

In order to improve the quality of Tochigi’s forestry, we have approached the ‘Tochigi Tree’ stable supply system. Although raw timber accounts for a large portion of our forest industry, we also sell products such as a variety of mushrooms. The annual gross output of the forest industry is approximately 11.2 billion yen (2004).

Mushrooms make up half of the forest industry, its output being approximately 5.6billion yen. Raw-shiitake especially boasts its high output in Japan.

Output of Agriculture (2005)